Description
The Sanctuary of the Madonna del Carmine is the large Carmelite church that closes off Piazza Carlo Alberto, in Catania, among the stalls of the Fera 'o Luni market: 68 meters long, it is the city's third-largest church, after the Cathedral and San Nicolò l'Arena.
On the facade, in a monumental niche, stands a gigantic marble statue of the Madonna del Carmine (Our Lady of Mount Carmel). Inside, three naves and eleven altars in polychrome marble; at the far end of the apse, the frescoes by Natale Attanasio with the prophet Elijah carried up to heaven in a chariot of fire.
In the left nave, at the foot of a painting of Saint Agatha and Saint Lucy, is an urn with a figure whose face and hands are made of wax. For ordinary people it is Saint Agatha, but it is the effigy of Baroness Rosalba Petroso Grimaldi, killed by her husband in 1784.
On the facade, in a monumental niche, stands a gigantic marble statue of the Madonna del Carmine (Our Lady of Mount Carmel). Inside, three naves and eleven altars in polychrome marble; at the far end of the apse, the frescoes by Natale Attanasio with the prophet Elijah carried up to heaven in a chariot of fire.
In the left nave, at the foot of a painting of Saint Agatha and Saint Lucy, is an urn with a figure whose face and hands are made of wax. For ordinary people it is Saint Agatha, but it is the effigy of Baroness Rosalba Petroso Grimaldi, killed by her husband in 1784.